Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-21

week The oats which are stored in the oil
warehouse on First street are the prop
erty OF john ID. Charles, of Sioux Olt,
and viii be used IN filling q government
contract which Mr.. Charles has secure
recently.
People inclined toward Sunday reorea
tion will find James river house grove
very pleasant place to spend tomorrow
afternoon. The Yankton band will b
there to furnish music and boats an,
other means of passing away time vii
be at the disposal of those who 90. Tn,
proprletorshlp of the grove is in tn
hands OF gentlemen who will be careful
to MAINTAIN order and to see that every
body is entertained.
A meeting OF the w. @. L. u. of Yank
ton county, in which many precincts o
the county we're represented. was hell
at the M. e. church this afternoon, a
which plans for the fall campaign and foI
the submission of the prohibition ques
ton to the public for a decision were dis
cussed at length. Tie matter of dlstri-
buting petitions calling, upon the people
to vote for prohibition was brought up
Information on the Temperance work ir
many of the precincts OF the county wat
advanced by representatives of these
precincts. AT q late hour the meeting
was still in session, and the result will
be given on Monday.
Harry Ash, mentioned among the
strangers in the city as an old Yankton
boy, is making his second visit in many
years to the home of his childhood and
he hardly knows whether he has sue
oeeded in getting into the right pew or
not. When he left Yankton years ago
with his parents, Purdy g. Breeht's drug
store was the most p%ortentious and pre-
t%entions building in the city, and he
looked Tor the p~ostofice around the cor
ner from the Germania house. His
brother-in-law, @. 81. Bates, did not
recognize him. and companions of his
melon stealing and school skipping ex-
peditions failed to see Harry Ash as be
now appears in the blossom of manhood.
He Will remain IN Yankton for q few
days renewing his acquaintance with
the CITY and people.
Noticing q paragraph to the effect
that the first crew OF Indian rousters
ever employed on q Missouri river
steamer had recently been engaged by
Captain Todd for the Rosebud, Mike
Foley excerpts. Mike was raised Oh the
river snd knows all it's traditions. he
says that in 1882, when he was steward
ing the Terry, the crew struck n was
put ashore. The Terry had 200 tons OF
coal to put off at Fort Randall and not a
man to do the work. Landing at that
station q bargain was quickly made with
Sitting Bull, then q prisoner OF war there,
by which his band of braves and squsws
contracted to unload the boat. They
carried out their bargain, though the
captain had to intersperse the work with
ahlk Aou iCbStSs EpbCLho VI hubhCA VIVA
taking each Indian periodically and at
the same instant and disabling him un.
til the remedy WAS applied. This, Mr.
Foley says, was the first instance wherein
Indians roustsbouted q Missouri rive,
boat, and they were the most murderous
and LATEST lot OF reds along the river
Captain Todd's exploit is ante-dated five
years.
CaptainL Lavender, OF Scotland, and Mr.
Kelly, of Huron, both loan agents who
for years have been largely engaged il
placing foreign capital, were in Yanktor
last evening. They said to the news
paper man that their vocation WAS at al
end-that foreign money had been driver
out by the law of the last congress-
known as the alien land law. This en-
aotment prohibits aliens from holding
real estate in the domain under the iur
isdlction Of the United States. Alienl
who loan money upon real estate secu-
rity expect to take the security
if the borrower does not pay hi
debt. AS the law prohibits the alienI
from owning real estate, foreign capital
lists are uncertain about the reliabilit,
OF their security and decline to loan
This, Messrs Lavender and Kelly state
will keep out OF Dakota a vast aggre
gate of capital seeking o market here q
a low rate OF interest. General Camp
bell, of this city, employed by evera
foreign loan agents, has given them al
exhaustive opinion upon the effect o
the alien act and he takes the groun,
that the mortgages OF foreign capitalist
are competent security eve under tina
act. Still the capitalists are timid abou
exposing their mossy TO the doubt the,
evidently entertain.
just received 1000 copies bes
standard vocal and instrumental
sheet music and for sale at II
cents each or IL for 81, at Wag
oners Music Store.